It’s no surprise that Hillary triangulates Iraq the way her husband does, just disappointing. I wish she would show us the way out, but she can’t or won’t, and no one else has suggested a good way. Some say she looks political rather than principled. I disagree. The lack of a strong stance against the [...]

House leadership listens to constituents instead of contributors and vows to take up an enforcement-only immigration bill. Bush wants one that includes guest workers – like police ignoring breaking and entering laws until people promise to leave their doors open. Of course he has noble motives: avoid riling Latino voters or forcing business to pay [...]

The Justice department will no longer ignore the recommendations of career staff attorneys on Voting Rights cases, as they did in Texas and Georgia. They won’t let them make any.

I’ve never been a fan of Rumsfeld, but if Joe Lieberman is going to take over, I would prefer to stay with the nut we know rather than the one who helped elect Bush. To solve the myriad of problems this administration created in Iraq, we need another Houdini – someone who can finesse difficulty [...]

A Democratic congressman said passage of the immigration law, considered by a committee today, would spell the end of fresh produce and disrupt the hospitality industry. Any business person who can’t pick lettuce, make beds or wash dishes without exploiting foreign workers should find another career – perhaps they could retire or run for congress.

Condoleezza Rice is soothing ruffled feathers on EU doves by clarifying US policies on rendition and interrogation. Each time she elaborates Bush sounds more reasonable. She makes the case for evolution instead of intelligent design.

Bush proved again today that he has nothing new to say about the war we’re fighting in Iraq. He repeats that things are going well, though we’ve had to make adjustments, but if we leave, awful things will happen. Since he’s been wrong about everything else, this might be the perfect time to go. Maybe [...]

Republicans love to call Howard Dean mean, and Democrats don’t want him out front, but he’s right, and like it or not, we need Democrats with his ideas in sight. Bush and Cheney are as stupid as their war. Instead of worrying about who supports the troops they should worry about saving them – like [...]

Ten hard-working citizens offered unanimous recommendations for making the country safer. Now they want to give Bush a “report card.â€? The administration won’t supply documents or submit to interviews because: “There is ample public information available for them to review about all of the actions we continue to take to better protect the American people.” [...]

Democrats don’t need to agree on one plan for Iraq, no matter what they decide to say Republicans will run the same old play. Liberals won’t get a chance to clean up after Bush for years, by then the mess will be so great they’ll need all the ideas they can generate.

The DNC solves election problem with a “people of faith� group, and another for military families. Dean should scream again.

Alito has said the Constitution does not protect the right to abortion, but asserts his personal opinions wouldn’t influence his interpretation of the Constitution. If he doesn’t deserve a filibuster for being completely out of the mainstream of public opinion, he deserves one for refusing in advance to do the job.

I say that is not a fair description of what his Newsweek column calls the “rising clamor in Washington to get out of Iraq.� People cry out, not in panic, but in disgust at leadership that can’t define victory, much less predict how or when it might occur. Bush was in baseball, but never learned [...]

The President’s “Plan for Victory” gives me no reason to doubt the conclusion I draw from James Fallow’s article in the December Atlantic: we cannot build a viable Iraqi army. Nancy Pelosi courageously endorsed John Murtha’s call for redeploying troops as quickly as we can consistent with their safety. Maybe the rest of the Democrats [...]

When Bush discussed progress in Iraq he forgot to mention fixing the news. To tell the people how well off they are, we plant favorable stories in local papers. If we can control the flow of information why can’t we do the same for electricity? The trick would be to disguise power lines and transformers [...]